Chasing Butterflies

Clifton Fadiman, in The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, tells a story about Valdimir Nabokov, the Russian-born novelist who achieved popular success ...

All Things to All People

The Oakland, California, police force recently unveiled its first "lowrider" police car. The vehicle has the standard logo, lights, and siren, ...

Hidden Treasure

When I was in high school, I worked for a time at an armored-car company, Brinks Armored Co. in San Bernardino, California. My job was to take care of ...

Clear Vision

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one ...

Motivation for Missions

One of the first western missionaries, Leonard Dober (1706-1766), gave this as his motivation for missions:

Since it is desired of me to make known my ...

Unsaved Americans

The fact that nine in ten Americans are not committed Christians is worthy of concern.

Evangelicals Should Evangelize

There is a subtle false teaching that says we can be evangelical without being evangelistic. It has to believe we "go" to church rather than ...

Flashlights for the World

A friend of mine was caught in an elevator during a power failure. At first, there was momentary panic as all seven strangers talked at once. Then my ...

The Witness of a Saint

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.